Palamite

For example, you can tell those Orthodox who truly believe the Palamite doctrine and those who merely uphold it through a party spirit.

Development of doctrine, essence/energies,and ecumenism Mike L 2007

For example, you can tell those Orthodox who truly believe the Palamite doctrine and those who merely uphold it through a party spirit.

Archive 2007-03-01 Mike L 2007

It would seem obvious to an historian that neither the eighth-century doctrine of the necessity of making and venerating icons nor the fourteenth-century Palamite distinction between essence and energies can really be found in the fourth-century Fathers—especially, in both cases, Basil the Great—to whom appeal is generally made, yet I know of no Orthodox theologian who calls on the category of authentic development to justify the later doctrine.

Archive 2007-03-01 Mike L 2007

It would seem obvious to an historian that neither the eighth-century doctrine of the necessity of making and venerating icons nor the fourteenth-century Palamite distinction between essence and energies can really be found in the fourth-century Fathers—especially, in both cases, Basil the Great—to whom appeal is generally made, yet I know of no Orthodox theologian who calls on the category of authentic development to justify the later doctrine.

Development of doctrine, Fr. Louth, and ecumenism Mike L 2007

Clearly, the Palamite councils affirmed EED; and the affirmation appears in the Synodikon of Orthodoxy, even if that section of it is not often used liturgically.

Not talking about God Mike L 2007

Clearly, the Palamite councils affirmed EED; and the affirmation appears in the Synodikon of Orthodoxy, even if that section of it is not often used liturgically.

Archive 2007-05-01 Mike L 2007

That council seems to have at least the same level of authority as the Palamite councils, yet Orthodox who insist on swallowing the latter whole don't do the same with the former.

Archive 2007-05-01 Mike L 2007

That council seems to have at least the same level of authority as the Palamite councils, yet Orthodox who insist on swallowing the latter whole don't do the same with the former.

Not talking about God Mike L 2007

Of course the development appears to have stopped with the Palamite councils and the fall of Constantinople little more than a century later.

Theopoesis vs. Theosis Mike L 2006

Following the Palamite councils of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, most Orthodox insist that there is a "real" distinction between the essence and the energies, such that the Spirit's energetic manifestation through the Son does not logically entail the eternal procession of his being from the Son as well as the Father.

Archive 2006-12-01 Mike L 2006